2:34 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Mike Davis spent the last decade running the USGA, where he set up golf courses to provide an extreme test for elite players and searched for solutions to increasing distance. Now he wants to build golf courses, a lifelong passion. Davis announced Tuesday he will retire as
7:09 PM ET The UFC’s light heavyweight title will be up for grabs Saturday, and Jon Jones‘ only involvement will be on social media. Dominick Reyes and Jan Blachowicz will vie for the title that Jones vacated in August, when he announced that he is moving to heavyweight. Reyes-Blachowicz will be the co-main event of
3:08 PM BST The 2020 women’s Six Nations championship will resume with round four matches on Oct. 25, seven months after the tournament was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers announced. Both the men’s and women’s competitions were suspended in March, with four matches in the men’s event still to be completed and six
When MS Dhoni walked in to bat in Chennai Super Kings’s (CSK) chase of 217 against Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Match 4 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020, the equation was 103 runs off 38 balls. Kedar Jadhav had just been dismissed and Dhoni had Faf du Plessis for company, who had been batting at
1:02 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 US Open champion, announced on Tuesday she will not be playing in the upcoming French Open and will sit out the remainder of the 2020 season. “I have come to the difficult decision to skip the clay court swing this year and will be taking the
1:39 PM ET Associated Press Belmont Stakes winner Tiz the Law won’t run in next month’s Preakness, spoiling what would have been a highly anticipated rematch with Kentucky Derby winner Authentic. The Preakness on Oct. 3 at Pimlico concludes this year’s reconfigured Triple Crown series, which was run out of order because of the coronavirus
12:04 PM ET Steve KimESPN Former WBO junior middleweight titlist Jaime Munguia will face Tureano Johnson on Friday, Oct. 30 at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California, according to Golden Boy Promotions. “It’s a great honor to be returning during these tough times,” said Munguia, who won the 154-pound title in 2018 against
11:52 AM BST Sale Sharks staged a late comeback to beat Harlequins 27-19 in the re-arranged Premiership Rugby Cup final, lifting their first silverware since 2006. A try and penalty late on from South African brothers Dan du Preez and Robert du Preez put Sale ahead, with back row Faf de Klerk sealing the winner
7:00 AM ET Just like fantasy owners around the country, the NFL Power Rankings crew is concerned about the rash of injuries to skill players around the league. So while we did our usual job of ranking every team, we went a step further and asked the NFL Nation writers to pick out an under-the-radar
7:00 AM ET For nearly two months, the National Hockey League has kept the teams in its postseason tournament inside “bubbles” that it helped construct with the NHL Players’ Association in an effort to safely finish the 2019-20 season after it was paused because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially there were two: The 12 teams
7:00 AM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Like many Big Ten fans, James Franklin spent the second Sunday in September frantically searching for good news.
9:15 AM ET Steve KimESPN Boxing finishes a busy September with a flourish, highlighted by a pair of headlining bouts from the Charlo brothers on a unique split pay-per-view card from Mohegan Sun Casino & Resort in Uncasville, Connecticut. It might not reach the level of “Revenge: The Rematches,” the Don King-promoted pay-per-view headlined by
3:16 PM ET Jeff Carlisle Close U.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Austin Lindberg It’s “as you were” in the top five of this week’s edition of MLS Power Rankings, with Columbus winning for the third time in its past four contests to maintain its place
7:42 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim For the first time in nearly a decade, the UFC’s light heavyweight division is about to have a new king. Both Dominick Reyes and Jan Blachowicz have earned this moment — their places at center stage under the spotlight, each poised to launch his era as champion — and yet
7:20 AM ET The 2020 NHL draft is right around the corner. Teams will begin to finalize their personal draft boards ahead of the two-day event. But today, I’m not concerned with those draft boards. I’m looking only at my own. My mock draft typically weaves in team preferences and projects what I believe will
7:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Just like that, the fastest, weirdest, pandemickiest baseball season ever has come and gone. Mathematics holds that a 60-game schedule is shorter than the standard 162, but the 2020 season has whistled
6:57 AM ET Anthony Davis is used to individual success. The 2012 No. 1 overall pick is a seven-time All-Star and four-time All-NBA player. This season, he finished second in Defensive Player of the Year voting and sixth for MVP, while being named first-team All-NBA and first-team All-Defense. But the 2020 NBA playoffs in the
With Rajasthan Royals (RR) set to begin their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 campaign against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on September 22, captain Steve Smith looks like he is well-prepared for the match, with a confident display in his first net session in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The club took to Twitter to share